What a precious work of God is the Bible! We do not appreciate it nearly enough. It is God’s masterpiece of wisdom and skill. It is more enduring than heaven and earth. The Lord Jesus tells us that is easier for heaven and earth to cease to exist than for the smallest part of one letter of the original scriptures to be lost or fail of its purpose (Luke 16:17)! God’s Word is better established and more secure than the Himalayas or the Alps. It would be easier for the sun and the planets to disintegrate and disappear than for the Bible to err or let us down. It is verbally and literally inspired.
And yet the sharpest minds and brightest intellects in all the world and all of history have not understood it unless they have humbled themselves and become like meek children. And at the same time, the simplest and least instructed have understood it enough to see that it is all about Jesus Christ and his work for sinners and have received light and salvation through its pages.
Oh, preachers and ministers, open this book and tell us what it means! We do not want or need your amusing anecdotes and autobiographical, ‘funny’ introductions. Teach us the Bible! Show us Christ through its pages! We need him desperately. We are dying for want of feeding in these green pastures. Do not cast doubt on this Book. Cast doubt on all man’s wisdom, but preach the Word, and preach Christ from the Word.
Thank God for the preservation of his Word. Thank God that he has not taken it away from us.
Holy Bible, Book Divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine;
Mine to tell me whence I came;
Mine to teach me what I am . . .
Mine to comfort in distress,
Suffering in this wilderness;
Mine to show, by living faith
Man can triumph over death!
(John Burton (1803))
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